If I swap to an NPPL from my PPL with SEP rating, do I still need to fly all the “12 hours every 2nd year” revalidation requirements as in JAR?
Well, the NPPL has 3 ratings – for microlights and SLMG, it’s 5 hours every 13 months, but you probably mean an NPPL with a ‘SSEA’ rating (the equivalant of a JAR SEP rating). If so, it is all based on 6 hours per year, with an hour’s training with an instructor every 2 years. It is yet unclear whether you will have to do 6 hours every 12 months, (and get a signature every year) but every 2nd time you will have to include an “instructed hour”, or whether this will be self-regulating and on on the day you want to go for a flight, you will have to look back and see if you have done 6 hours in the 12 months before the flight, and an hour’s flight with an instructor in the previous 24 months. There’s a big difference, and it was unclear right up to Jan 2004! (See list of current ANO confusions below these Questions and Answers). • If I switch to an NPPL to avoid JAR medical costs, what does the application cost? Well, you’ll need the NPPL medical which will cost whatever a GP’s signature c
